"The government is allowing Alcoa to do whatever they friggin want," according to a long-term campaigner for better regulation of WA's alumina refineries.
The WA Government expects no new coal or gas-fired power generation in the South-West will ever be built but those looking for clues to the future of Collie’s existing coal-fired power stations will have to wait for a plan to be released later this year.
A $22B wind and solar project to power the Pilbara and Indonesia that will take 3000 workers a decade to build was approved by the WA environmental regulator today.
Stephen Edwell, the independent chair of WA's energy transformation taskforce, has just a few years to stop a solar surge overwhelming the South West power grid.
